· Private foundation
Mary Cannon Morris Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TISCH BRAIN TUMOR CENTER - DUKE UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| RUMPLE MEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $3,000 |
| TRINITY AME ZION CHURCH | $3,000 |
| WTDD 885 NPR RADIO | $2,000 |
| PIEDMONT WILDLIFE CENTER | $2,000 |
| WESTOVER CHURCH | $2,000 |
| EDUCATE TOMORROW'S PARENTS | $2,000 |
| ST LUKES EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
DUKE UNIVERSITY3× · 2020–2022 · $54k · revenue +49%- ETEDUCATE TOMORROW'S PARENTS2× · 2024–2025 · $3k · revenue +25%
- NANEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS INC2× · 2023–2024 · $2k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- LCLEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +27%
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +106%
UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue +14%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provide food, shelter, rehabilitation and christian ministry to the poor and homeless
Humane Society of Charlotte mission is to champion the wellbeing of companion animals and strengthen their bond with the people who know, love, and need them.
The Wireless Research Center is an independent, private nonprofit research center dedicated to applied research and engineering. Located in North Carolina's Research Triangle region, the WRC helps clients from around the world develop…
WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.
To rescue, rehabilitate and rehome homeless pets
To support and carry out the functions and purposes of wrmc hospital operating corporation (dba atrium health wake forest baptist wilkes medical center) to enhance the delivery of quality health care within the organization's region.
The aps of durham is a leader in building lifelong bonds between people and animals through education, community outreach, and the provision of care for animals in need.
To champion our zoo and its initiatives, wildlife and wild places, with an emphasis on the future.
To create a place of lifelong learning where people, from young child to senior citizen, embrace science as a way of knowing about themselves, their community, and their world.
The nccee provides economic and financial education for educators and students throughout north carolina. this mission is accomplished through standards based workshops and a variety of resources for educators, academic competitions for…
To organize members of the medical profession to advance medical science.
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Unc Health Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 20 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds FCS URBAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATE TOMORROW'S PARENTS ↗
- Who funds NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Oak Ridge Fire and Rescue Company Inc ↗
- Who funds OUR WILD NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIEDMONT INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Mary Cannon Morris Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.